On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brett Lymn wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:34:13 +1030 (CST)
> From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
> To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@smaug.fh-regensburg.de>
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD from WinNT's bootloader (solution)
> 
> According to Hubert Feyrer:
> >
> >The file attached below was created by "dd if=/dev/sd0d of=netbsd.bb
> >bs=1k count=2". To use it to boot NetBSD from the WinNT boot menu, add
> >the following to your boot.ini:
> >
> 
> Urrrgh - I am impressed, but you really did not need to do all that by
> hand.  There is a nice tool called BootPart 2.0
> (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) that does all the hard work for
> you - just read all the readme file before doing it!  You just run the
> command and it finds and presents all the partitions you have, you can
> then add any of those partitions to your boot menu.  I can now boot my
> netbsd from the NT boot menu without a problem which certainly beats
> the method I was using before of not turning on the external SCSI
> drive with NT on it so that the first drive found by the BIOS was then
> my NetBSD boot disk, except when I wanted to stick something on the NT
> disk (I run NT on FAT) then I would get the NetBSD boot loader up, hit
> a key to stop the count down, power up the NT drive, wait for the
> drive to spin up and then boot NetBSD.  If I did not do this then the
> NT disk was not ready in time for the probe and Bad Things (TM)
> happened
> 
> 
> BTW BIG THANKS to David Christiansen for letting me know about
> bootpart :-)

I use osbs, and it works well -- you need to have a primary FAT partition
to install it, however.

Oh, and NAV now reports that OSBS is the Bloodhound MBR virus.  Kind of
annoying.

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Kevin Tsang
Technical Analyst
Promis Systems Corp.